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Originally Posted by smoothmoniker
Her private school switched over to a standardized test for about two years, and she nearly quit out of frustration. She went from teaching students and developing kids to churning out test scores. It's awful.
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See, but here's what I don't get. (No offense to your wife.) If this is really such a bright group of kids, they shouldn't have any problem with the content on standardized tests. I'm young enough to clearly remember those, and they were fuckin'
easy.
There were teachers who would teach the test for about six weeks beforehand (
boredboredboredbored), and there were teachers who didn't do a thing about it except warn us the night before to get a good night's sleep. Either way, the class seemed to do about the same. The only place "teaching the test" is even effective is when you have a whole class of remedial kids who all will fail unless they learn better test-taking skills.